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US 2011/0080021 A1Published application
Quick Mounting for Protective Plates for Vehicles
OwnerMark Steven Crosson, Lorna Beatrice Crossoninventors
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Using multiple hook-type anchor bolts the user can quickly mount and remove a protective plate on or under vehicles by hooking onto the frame and/or parts of the body of the vehicle. Hook-type anchor bolt mounting avoids costly, labor-intensive, complex, and risky drilling into the body and/or frame of the vehicle as required by conventional mounting process requiring bolt holes to be drilled into the frame and/or body of the vehicle and secured by bolts. With this new method of mounting a protective plate the user can mount or remove a protective plate in a few minutes instead of taking 2 hours or more. This new method also avoids the need to disassemble parts of the vehicle to drill the mounting holes in remote locations on the frame and/or body of the vehicle.
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The apparatus consists of a protective plate design with holes drilled in locations to allow the secure attachment to the frame and/or body of a vehicle by using multiple anchor hook-type bolts and lock-nuts. Please refer to the drawings on page 6 for more information.
Wherein using a hooking type attachment avoids the requirement to use precisely drilled holes in the vehicle's frame. The inventor can use one protective plate design for many different vehicles making the production and distribution of protective plates much more cost effective.
Wherein the apparatus uses very inexpensive anchor hook-type bolts mass-produced for the building construction industry for mounting stem walls into concrete foundations. Using mass produced materials significantly reduces the cost of building the apparatus. Please refer to the drawings on page 6 for more information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.